arizonalover1
Active Member
Hey everyone! lately my horse has been having some problems
so here’s a quick timeline and information
he’s a 15 year old grey appendix gelding stands about 16.1 hands, used to be a lesson horse, hunter/jumper prospect, free jumps around 4’
when purchased we did a ppe, with flexion tests, he passed very well with the slight detail that he has external melanomas (he’s a grey)
we got him a year ago, muscled upside down and slightly underweight, he’s nursed back to health and his muscles are looking very good / doesn’t walk around hollow anymore
he went lame because our farrier trimmed him too short so he got special shoes
he got chiropracted after 4 months of us owning him just because he was a little stiff - it did miracles and he was walking a lot better!
he began to have slight problems with the canter (just unbalanced) but we had expected that as normal because he was using new muscles, quickly fixed and he was doing great. introduced to lead changes.
10 months in he starts to act up a little, tossing his head when anticipating canter, when asked for canter he’d buck and take off.
so this was weird, so we checked his back and sore enough he was pretty sore, he would dip as his lumbar area (back end) was touched and would twitch as if he had flys on him when touched by withers.
we checked the saddle fit as this was our first thought by our saddle fitter, it fit very nicely.
we started to do some stretches and lunge on the pessoa and just working long and low and he seemed to be a little less sore.
chiropractor coming out thursday.
any ideas??
so here’s a quick timeline and information
he’s a 15 year old grey appendix gelding stands about 16.1 hands, used to be a lesson horse, hunter/jumper prospect, free jumps around 4’
when purchased we did a ppe, with flexion tests, he passed very well with the slight detail that he has external melanomas (he’s a grey)
we got him a year ago, muscled upside down and slightly underweight, he’s nursed back to health and his muscles are looking very good / doesn’t walk around hollow anymore
he went lame because our farrier trimmed him too short so he got special shoes
he got chiropracted after 4 months of us owning him just because he was a little stiff - it did miracles and he was walking a lot better!
he began to have slight problems with the canter (just unbalanced) but we had expected that as normal because he was using new muscles, quickly fixed and he was doing great. introduced to lead changes.
10 months in he starts to act up a little, tossing his head when anticipating canter, when asked for canter he’d buck and take off.
so this was weird, so we checked his back and sore enough he was pretty sore, he would dip as his lumbar area (back end) was touched and would twitch as if he had flys on him when touched by withers.
we checked the saddle fit as this was our first thought by our saddle fitter, it fit very nicely.
we started to do some stretches and lunge on the pessoa and just working long and low and he seemed to be a little less sore.
chiropractor coming out thursday.
any ideas??